skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Building the first F150 is an act of creation and design. Assembling the second one is finding the same parts and doing the same assembly steps, the thinking is already sorted out.

Building the first Model A means going back to the drawing board because it's not the same. Even at a smaller scope building a F150 with an updated exhaust means going back to the drawing board for that part, and making sure it keeps working correctly with all the other parts.

It turns out that with software, once you have one fully assembled "F150", a second identical one can be created out of thin air (cp / git clone / run compiler / whatevs). So the effort is ~100% on thinking and design.

Now why would you want 2..n F150s? Because you want to have them in the wild doing something useful. That's making them available and distributing them and having more of these as needs increase. That's cp'ing your code onto servers and deploying and running it and making it reachable. You do that with DigitalOcean, Chef, K8S, or whatever AWS service du jour, and hopefully you automate as much of it as possible just like we have car factories with robots to not build these with human hands.

Deploying and spinning up more of that same code so that it keeps up with the scale of whatever it needs to do... that's ops, and that's basically the only part of software that remotely resembles industrial work. The part before that is development, as in "research & development", and that's 100% not "industrial" by any stretch of the imagination.

Thinking that developing software is like building a house or a car and "industrialising" things with waterfall or Kanban on SCRUM and pulling bogus time estimates to completion is the biggest lie ever, just like pulling out the next vaccine or devising a new maths theorem cannot have any reliable time to completion because you're constantly up against unknown unknowns. This field just flat out doesn't work that way.
I don't know the specific answer to your question but I do have a data point to add. When I was just starting out in my career in the early 2000s, I worked for a hedge fund. One curious thing I noticed is that all the traders had time stamping machines on their desks that are inspected and sealed regularly. I was told that during an outage, these timestamp machines allow trades to continue to happen because the trader can write down the order and stamp it and their counter party would presumably do the same. Later the orders can then be reconciled when things are back up and running. This leads me to think that it is at the very least possible for transactions to be recorded in a distributed manner.

Example of machine: http://www.carpenterstimesystems.com/Amano-TS3000i-OATS-Time...

This might all be historical now.
The minimum wage probably just increases costs if some items to cover minimum wage of those currently underpaid. You could argue about it, but calling it unethical seems far-fetched.
SWR or react-query?
Seems to me that conclusion from Milgram experiment are usually overblown. I would guess that 'teachers' just assume safety of the procedure and consent of 'learners' based on context. So it is not really about obedience vs moral imperatives but more about trust of authority vs. doubts based on personal observation.
nah you’re underestimating their power to move names in small cap stocks with high short interest.
Lived in Texas my whole life and like it. But the natural beauty in Texas in my opinion doesn't really compare to a lot of California and the Northwest.

But from a financial standpoint it's great. I have friends who make 50k a year in California and live like they're in college where as when I made that much in Texas I felt very comfortable. Things like buying a house in a nice walkable neighborhood 5 minutes from downtown for 200k in a major city isn't really an option in California.
> This is a dairy farm, so it should not be expected to abide by the ethics of vegan people.

No one said it should. What the parent poster said were that there were significant things not said by the article. For the folks who care about animal welfare (especially as a purchasing factor), knowing what the farm does in totality is important.
> They're not selling items for profit.

https://shop.amnestyusa.org/

Not-for-profit firms make profits all of the time, and while I'm not familiar with UK tax codes, at least in the US the only fuzzy line is that pursuit of profits not be the end goal... quite a few "non-profits", such as hospitals, sell a large number of services for a profit!
Bio Implants: Pros and Cons
How r/WallStreetBets gamed the stock of GameStop
People don’t like thinking this way... it’s difficult for a lot of people to grasp, for example, that if they have children and claim those children as a deduction they are thereby avoiding federal income taxes. Individuals avail themselves of the parts of the tax code that benefit them just like Big Corps do. You are not required to claim offspring as a deduction, so I guess by the logic of many people in this thread anyone who does is scummy because they are avoiding taxes? Seems kooky.
question - why does the $420 number keep being repeated everywhere ?
We contract with the health professionals who go in-home (phlebotomists, medical assistants, LVN/LPN, and RN)
> These points doubtless make me appear to be a complacent shill for the financial industry, talking down to the rubes. For the record, I’m still angry about the way workers were ripped off in Britain more than three decades ago, and about the way the little guy ended up bearing the brunt for the financial implosions of 2000 and 2008. But it looks horribly to me as though the same thing is going to happen again — and I don’t think the answer to today’s many ills is to empower poor people to bankrupt themselves with margin accounts and derivatives.

Who is this hurting, exactly? The author is making it sound like messing up the short stock is somehow hurting "the little guy" in the long run, and I wouldn't see that happening unless:

a) Gamestop is somehow in a bunch of mutual funds tied to employee pensions/401k's

b) The "little guy" refers to the Reddit traders that are making a killing right now, with the expectation that eventually the stock price will crash again.

As best I can figure, most of the /r/ guys are doing this as a form of trolling and aren't expecting to get rich off it or pour their live-savings into it. And again, as best I can figure, the only people this "hurts" are the ones who were originally shorting the stock. So if this comes down to guys on Reddit pissing in Wall Street's cornflakes, it's hard for me to feel sympathetic for Wall Street.
I understand that perspective, but it doesn't affect my position. I'm free to choose who I work for, and I wouldn't choose to work for someone who found the question disqualifying. I get to define my own utility function.
Use OpenAI’s CLIP to search 2M photos on Unsplash
That's a false equivalency if I've ever seen one
GitHub is not a great engine for driving discovery of quality content.
It serves that purpose, but is the market as it exists today the best way for society to achieve that purpose?

K-shaped recoveries make me think "I wish there were a better way."

But I'm an idiot. So my best idea right now is, "When a business issues stock, they also have to issue an additional 20% to the government, and then we need to keep the tax rate low-ish on dividends, but increase the tax rate on capital gains - hopefully encouraging companies to pay dividends, which the government would receive."

I'd appreciate if someone could tell me why my plan is awful. Because I'm sure it is, but I haven't been able to figure out why it's awful.
Record-breaking laser link could help test whether Einstein was right
AWS Compensation Explained
I'd say you could learn almost as much about a person by looking at their house as by looking at their profile on the internet (that is until they learn that you will check their house. Once something gets measured it stops being a good way to measure or something like that)

Edit: and I kind of agree with the others.
Theory aside, in a pandemic, the longer lens is more conducive to social distancing. Its use may be simply a matter of sound hygiene and not editorial stance.

For a journalist, a long focal length may be the most practical way to get a shot. Nick Ut carries a DSLR with a 60-600mm in addition to his Leica these days.
I don't think you understand what's happening here.

There's only so much volume available as a result of the short positions. WSB et al are putting in money on a long hold. As a result that drives up the price. Yeah gamma's are in for sure making money. There are some people who have made multiple millions. One individual sitting at $31M currently on a $50k investment.

Some retail will lose, but wall street institutional short sellers are getting hit hard right now. For them to win this they need to keep putting more money into the fire which pulls in bigger and bigger fish. At some point large institutional investors aren't willing to bail out the short sellers.

It is also a strong argument that wall street isn't as intelligent or in control as they like to promote.

General public doesn't understand the trade or the sentiment behind it.
What I found shocking about the latest trend in video consumption on social media is that they are 10 seconds long or less. This is only one of the many ways to keep a person locked to the screen (ex. youtube)

It's not hard to imagine what this sort of exposure does to a young person's brain and attention span. You are essentially creating addicts and social media users all show withdrawl symptoms of any prolonged psychotropic drug use:

- irritability

- depression

- physical restlessness

- overwhelming need for redose

- tolerance build up

Something has to be done. We cannot rely on the generosity or moral guidelines of the companies that produce these apps well aware of the link between serotonin and screen time.

I'm all for small government but this is a matter of public health. We needed regulation, and we need regulation, and will need regulation.
What are examples of data-fetching libs/standards outside the web, that check all (or a relevant subset) of those criteria?
OP here, as you said and to confirm, I am not involved with the development of Berty in any way.

My understanding is also that Berty is not fully production ready yet, however I have been following the project for a while and they seem to be going into the right direction. Other HNers might also be interested and who knows, the project might grow faster with more people involved.
Like sched_setaffinity didn't exist and cgroups can't be used outside some container env?
When you say you "copy all my files to a 3rd disk as a cold backup", do you mean you are overwriting any existing files on the 3rd disk? If so, I would recommend considering using something like Duplicacy (https://github.com/gilbertchen/duplicacy) to perform your backups with snapshots.

The reason being is you can decide how long to keep older copies of files, just in case something changes on a file, but you don't happen to realize the incorrect update for a couple of months and want to go back to an earlier version.

To give you an idea of what is possible, here is the snapshot configuration I use:
Keep no snapshots older than 450 days
Keep 1 snapshot every 90 day(s) if older than 180 day(s)
Keep 1 snapshot every 30 day(s) if older than 30 day(s)
Keep 1 snapshot every 1 day(s) if older than 1 day(s)
Is there any way for us to know for sure, other than them announcing their positions, or losses?
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A limited set of professional traders can trade after hours but retail traders cannot. Why not just switch to 24-hour trading?
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Let them eat stonks

(Downvotes? "Let them eat cake" is the traditional translation of the French phrase "Qu'ils mangent de la brioche", spoken in the 17th or 18th century by "a great princess" upon learning that the peasants had no bread.)
Because food and shelter cost nearly 100% of people’s incomes.

If the cost of living is equal or greater than your income, saving is impossible.
Thanks a lot for these tips, I didn't know about the separate update of the lens database.

I am on Linux, yes, trying to get rid of the need to power up the MBP.

Edit: I'm using Nikon D700 and the "not so good" lens algorithm was for the 16-85 lens... LR seems to take better care of it, but I'll try with the updated lens DB in Darktable.
That's a great idea, I'll definitely be doing that in the future!

I've added L-brackets to key spots on Ikea furniture before, and it often increases how sturdy it feels by an order of magnitude.

Just the other day I fixed a 5 year old Billy bookshelf (that I broke while moving it, while partly loaded with books) by securing the cardboard back with screws instead of finishing nails and adding a couple metal brackets to the bottom. Cosmetically, despite being (ab)used by my kid, it still looks fine, and now feels even more sturdy than before. Wish I had thought of adding some glue (or maybe No More Nails) to secure the back even more.
Eleven Table Tennis VR.

It's the most immersive experience you can have at the moment, you simply forget it's in VR and not IRL.
I'm not sure that I share the assumptions here about the distribution of talent throughout the American voting population, in particular given that the venn diagram of the tech hiring pool and the American voting population is not a circle.
Aren't almost all companies like this an integral part of almost everyone's pensions?

Through your pension you're probably an investor in tens of thousands of companies and funds.
Well now, this seems like an article that should be on the front page now and again. Awareness of the persistent imminent threat of nuclear armegeddon should beat most posts on <framework>.
Understanding the Supersonic Flight Experience
I have not. I get a lot of value out of HN as it relates to my interests. I really don't get any value over what someone I went to college with who I no longer speak to anymore is doing with their lives. But I understand your frustrations. Its hard to find any place that escapes it all
A quick check shows the short float is still at 140%.

How do we reconcile what is reported here in this article with the data showing short float > 100%?
The article says there are two more of the same model still running.
Minimum wage just forces some ppl to do more productive stuff. It will take away some jobs but you probably dont want such jobs in developed country. It's just better to allow more part-time work IMO. I would like some opinion of Dutch ppl on their part time work law, which seems interesting to me.
Ikea definitely has tiers of quality. A $50 desk is basically cardboard, a $500 desk has some MDF around the edges to make it feel sturdier, and the $1000 desk might even have some real wood in it.

The real problem with IKEA is that they use a supply chain that tends to bribe officials into cutting down old growth forests, destroying wildlife habitats.
Looks really interesting! Similar to a company called Workpath [0] that was recently acquired by Ro.

I'm also building a related company called Brick Health [1] that does something similar, but is partnering with brick-and-mortar facilities instead of doing home visits. This is definitely a huge open problem.

[0] https://www.workpath.co
[1] https://brick.health
They really want you to use the App so they can foist more ads upon you.
> I suspect that IKEA was not the one at fault here

That's right, if I recall correctly, for some reason the press really obsessed about IKEA and another steakhouse chain whose name I forgot.
Bill and Melinda Gates: Covid-19 will change how the world thinks about health
Yeah in the two years before COVID, I had exactly one person ask if I stole the baby, presumably as a joke. I took her to the playground every day, to the grocery store multiple times per week, picked her up from daycare all the time, took her to the zoo every two or three weeks, etc. Now of course we're just in the house and walking around the neighborhood or going to local land trusts where we're not going to run into other people.
Ask HN: What happens to the homeless during hazardous weather in the Bay Area?
at least on my kde neon you just right click on the connected wifi and press show QR code.
they said the same about video games, violent movies and music
A while back Elon Musk joked that the price target for Tesla was $420.69. The number 420 has historically been associated with marijuana use, claimed to be a police radio code for possession of narcotics (despite no police department found to be using it). 69 is associated with a sexual act.

Since Musk tweeted about it, that price target has stuck for Gamestop.
The US and to a lesser extent the EU sold their manufacturing sectors to China without any idea of what to replace them with or what to do with the populations who relied on that work, we are feeling the pain of a self inflicted wound. They did this at the same time they dismantled the social safety nets that could have maybe kept people going. Now millennials are feeling the pain of those decisions in an economy that frequently crashes, with houses and education that are increasingly unaffordable.
That's absurd. People in WSB probably bought low and haven't sold at all or sold on the way up. Look at the volume. Who is shorting at these prices with this kind of activity?

Who has the money to keep buying at $350 to propel the stock to $400? Definitely not WSB. I know plenty of people dipping their toes in and buying 10 or 20 shares for fun right now. But there's 55M shares trading at all time highs. That's not retail. That's day trading shops and deep pockets.
Richard Feynman's account of teaching in Brazil talks about this.
> do people still think Efficient Market Hypothesis is a thing?

Sure, it's a thing. But underdamping is also a thing. And information diffusion is also a thing.

The efficient market hypothesis doesn't say "markets are always efficient, and prices only move based on new public information." Rather, that information diffuses into the market. Some idiot hotshot billionaire short-seller overshorted GME, and it took time for that information to spread to other market participants. Then, once the information was there, it took time for the upward price impact to un-do the impact of the short. And it is going to overshoot the true asset value because the market is underdamped -- contrarians aren't going to step in immediately, and longs are still waiting to put in a clear indication of a top.

The real joke here is that Plotkin went so heavily short a name that was trading at a mere fraction of its annual sales.

Personally I think there are two SEC rules that should come out of all of this:

First, shorts should be reported alongside longs in 13F filings.

Second, there should either be a limitation on re-hypothecation for heavily shorted names, or short sellers should not be able to add to new positions once shorts go beyond 100% of the float.
I think that's always the issue with any market manipulation case: how do you know it was manipulated.

To be honest, I have no idea.

There may be a hard mathematical test I'm unaware of. Or it might just come down to convincing the jury. In this case, I'd say that the statements on WSB and the fact the price rose 2 (3?) figures with no change in the underlying company is a pretty strong indication. But it's not a slam dunk, "anything over x% is manipulation" rule AFAIK.

Still, plenty of others are convicted of it, so either juries can be convinced or there is a mathematical rule I'm missing.
perhaps you don't realize these day trading shops (and loosely connected groups of high volume traders), are active on wsb
We use the donut app in Slack which pairs you with someone every week to set up a chat. It’s not the same as being face to face, but it keeps you in touch with people who you may not otherwise talk to in a work context.
No, it doesn't. Telephoto is a specific category of long-focal lenses, where the focal length is longer than the lens itself - that is achieved using a special lens element that isn't present in regular long lenses. (as for the "high focal length", I guess it's just a language quirk as it makes perfect sense in my native language)

Looking at the math, cropping a picture taken with a 28mm lens to the equivalent of 300mm is a crop factor of 0.093. Using the highest-res camera I've used (a Sony A7R IV) at 61MP, this results in a photo of around 900x600 pixels - not something you'd ever see published and taking into account the significant amount of noise that is unavoidable at that pixel density, the photo would be utterly unusable even at that resolution.

So sure, it's a distance effect, but since no sane person would do that kind of crop and if they did, it would be painfully obvious or at least highly suspicious-looking to most people (also keep in mind the DoF!), it's pretty safe to conclude that this effect will be significant only with telephoto lenses.
Why doesn’t GME issue some shares at these prices and pay off all its debt and add cash to the balance sheet?
In one case he was only half joking, but in the wrong sense. He was genuinely concerned and making sure I think it’s the right call. Sad to say we ended up buying through that dealership, but through a different salesperson.
Yann wrote LZ4 and Zstd well before joining FB. I have to applaud FB for supporting Yann's work, though.
If you're comparing it to cars, you can buy furniture with cash today from retail home stores. Online you can get something from Ashley or West Elm for around $500 within a few weeks, or online stores like Article or Joybird will hit that $1000 and ship quicker. Of course, a $100 dresser is not the same product as a $1000 dresser, which Ikea will also sell you.

I wouldn't say it's insane—shipping big things individually is expensive. Ikea is the crazy one, and they've certainly innovated to make furniture cheap. But everything cheap has a cost.
Reminds me of 2005 and trying to figure out jQuery vs. Mootools.

jQuery had lots of docs with examples, and I never was able to wrap my head around Mootools.
the reality is all of their major shorts are being squeezed not just Gamestop, but I agree I think their CNBC interview was just a distraction and doubt they could’ve closed out their entire short position overnight.
Exceptional short-term phenomena like this do not disprove the idea that on long-term time scales the market is efficient.

A regression to the mean will inevitably happen and that will further confirm the efficiency idea. Everyone will eventually have to sell.
LOL That's awesome! I know these people too! And watch, he's IT Manager next year...
"Lightweight and fast" are the key features I'm looking for.
Do they? I keep hearing how college age students are “coddled” and the whole helicopter parenting thing. Your comment is the first time I saw the opposite view expressed in a while.
It's states what it gets right: it's lightweight, accessible, compatible, responsive, legible and it works.
It isn't just retail that is going to get destroyed -- the option-sellers may not have enough capital to hedge effectively. A lot of parties are going to be harmed by this; it is an expensive tuition payment to the school of hard knocks.

The most interesting technical thing about this fracas is the fact that WSB has managed to play the options-sellers off against the shorts to set this off. The kids have temporarily played the adults off against one another and caused an explosion.

In the end, the savvy and the lucky will have more capital than in the beginning, and the un-trained and unlucky are going to be very sad. In the meantime, food-fights are fun while the food is flying.